Frederick Delius - Song of Summer

- Composer: Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (29 January 1862 -- 10 June 1934) - Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: John Barbirolli - Year of recording: 1967 Painting: Delius in his Garden at Grez-sur-Loing. Oil on canvas by Jelka Rosen {his wife}, early 1900s. “A Song of Summer“, tone poem for orchestra, written in 1930-1931. After Delius was blinded and crippled by tertiary syphilis in the early ’20s, his composing career seemed effectively to have ended. But the arrival of Eric Fenby, a